Group Norms

Group Norms

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Team Chemistry

Team Chemistry

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10 Key Steps in Being a Great Communicator

The following are 10 keys that will help the average baseball coach become a great communicator. This list shows that verbal communication is not everything in sports. Even though the keys are written with "players" in mind, they apply to all groups to which you communicate.

1. Know your message
2. Make sure you are understood
3. Deliver your message in the proper context
4. Use appropriate emotions and tones
5. Adopt a healthy communication style
6. Be receptive
7. Provide helpful feedback
8. Be a good nonverbal communicator
9. Be consistent
10. Be positive

Motivation

Motivation

Sandra- Motivation

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I have posted the song Motivation by Sandra because her words in the song is what motivation is all about. Motivation is very important in a team. A team whose members are aligned with its purpose, feel responsibility for the outcome, feel a challenge in their task, and experience growth as a team, will tend to sustain motivation over the long run. This is what being a team is all about. The manager and coach of the baseball team will need to show leadership, enthusiasm, organization, and be a motivator. As a coach, watch other players at the fields and pick some that would fit into your team for the positions you need. Most of all, the players need to play as a team and work together to win. Motivation is key!

Leadership in Coaching

A good leadership quality is essential for a coach to succeed in getting through to his or her players. At any age level a person must be able to get the attention of their players. At a younger age, children will follow a coach knowing he or she is the authority figure, but without great leadership ability, the coach will not be able to help his players to become the best athletes they can be. As coaches go up the line, a leadership quality is a vital part for a coaches success.

As players get older, especially as a teenager, they begin to think that they are bigger than the game, and already know what the coach might be trying to teach them. This is a where a coach must have be able to win the confidence of the player. There are many ways to do this, alot of which are the same that apply to public speaking will work to convey the coach's message.

1. A coach's message to the player must be clear and concise. If you try to dazzle the player with lingo, or seem to be talking down to the player, the individual player will turn his or her back on the coach. The trust is lost.

2. Speak about what you know, and capture the player with the "title" of what you want him or her to learn. As teenagers, their attention span is very limited. So if you do not catch their attention with the first couple sentences, all will be lost.

3. Let the player know that they will benefit from the information you as the coach are giving them. Teenagers are usually only interested in things that benefit them, so know that and feed on that. Let them know that this information will pertain to their success at thier sport.

With these simple steps, communication and leadership will work hand in hand in growing a relationship with the players you are mentoring, and will also help you to help them grow not only as athletes, but as good individuals.

Non-Verbal Communication

Studies have shown that up to 70% of communication is accomplished non- verbally. The importance of reading non-verbal cues include body language and watching facial expressions. If your body language conflicts with your words, players will be just as confused as if you told them one thing one day, and the opposite thing the next. That is why you need to be consistent in your actions.

In baseball, non-verbal communication is used frequently and very quickly. Except for the ball itself, the hidden communication from catcher to pitcher, from manager to base coach, from base coach to base runner, from infielder to outfielder (and various other combinations of transmitted sign language that take place in the roughly 20 seconds between pitches) might be the most essential element for completion of an orderly game. Although this technique is very helpful in the fact that it allows teams to have their own sense of strategy, it may not always work. Players can read the signs wrong, add the numbers wrong, or they may just not even listen to what the manager is calling. Players have to pay very close attention to what play is being called so that they can properly execute.

The video below is a video on the importance of signs in a baseball game. Just remember, that baseball isn't the only sport that uses non-verbal communication; it's just the most obvious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4LK-919A-U

Game Day Communication

Game day is a very important day for communicating. Your game day tactics should be the same as your practice tactics. A lot of coaches talk about delayed game strategy, half-time discussions, and other things. I think that tone is important, I think that you should communicate in a regular, steady tone reminding your team of what needs to be done; another option that works really well is to remind them of what they have surrendered to be here, such as early practices and strenuous workouts.

Furthermore, there needs to be crisp, clear communication amongst the actual players on the field. If communication is worthless on the field, it can do sickening things such as costing runs, and can easily donate to a win for our opponent.

After a performing well it is more than vital to give tons of optimistic advice as to what went well for them and donated to the outstanding value performance. It is also extremely significant to cover a few sections where development and enhancement can be made. After a weak performance, it is pretty important to suggest things that were constructive and helpful, then notice what wasn't carried out correctly and needs to be performed on, and come to an end with something encouraging to help them remain pumped up and upbeat for the next game. Moreover, you should never chastise a person in front of the team; you should only admire and commend them. Chastising them in public can be very harmful and destructive to their self-confidence.

Whether the outcome was a win or loss, your line of attack, (your approach) should be the same. You should congratulate and commend what they did well, give your evaluation, and then finish with something optimistic and cheering. If you are going to disapprove or condemn someone, you should compliment them first, people don’t like being put down.

Teamwork

TEAMWORK

Every team wants to win. Winning cannot happen without teamwork, players having good chemistry and excellent communication. The manager of the team is responsible so that the team will work together to win.

Baseball played correctly requires a lot of teamwork and a coach that knows the players' strengths and weaknesses. Other team members need to help with strategy to beat a challenging opponent. It's really the only sport where one person cannot make your team great. Baseball forces the entire team to come together, because not one or two guys can make a great team. For example, in plays such as a bunt, sacrifice for RBI, single, double and triple plays all require teamwork. The ability to read the field as a team is very important so that when you have the ball, you know when to throw to a cutoff man or to the nearest base. Also, a batter only bats an average three or four times a game and he needs his team to get on base to score runs.

To work as a team, means that everyone believes in everyone, not just the star players. Even when the team is down by five runs, some teammates must be able to create a winning attitude.

Making the Media Yours

Making The Media Yours

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The 10 Commandments of Sports Management

The spotlight is on you, there are ten microphones in your face, cameras flashing from all over the room, everyone crowded around you and all talking at once trying to get a response from you. Who do I answer? What do I say? Which camera do I look at? How am I going to get out of this?

You may be wondering what the answers are to these questions, well there is only one question you really need to answer right now: can you handle it?

Sports managers are in and out of media conferences which is why it is so important to prepare responses beforehand. The media can be a bit overwhelming; however I’m going to provide you with the 10 Commandments of Sports Management which will ultimately transform you into a master of the media.

1. Pre-conference preparation

• Developing a mock conference beforehand will help you build confidence as well as perfect statements that you plan to make in the media conference.

2. Responses are well thought out

• Make sure your responses are safe and direct to avoid any media conflicts.

3. Answer questions in a timely manner

• Do not rush yourself and do not take too much time in responding to one question.

4. Do not answer any questions that you are not prepared for

• Hold off on any questions of substance that you are not prepared for.

5. Refrain from giving too much away

• As a sports manager you don't want to give too much away about your team, just keep it simple and respond to the questions that you are prepared for.

6. Maintain a positive atmosphere

• Keep everything positive for instance, if a teammate leaving the organization: tell the media that is for the better of both the player and the team. Be sure to let them know that we have many possible prospects looking to fill the position.

7. Respect the media

• Keeping your relationship on a respectful level is important when dealing with the media, because they can make or break you and they control the public eye.

8. Make eye contact

• Be direct with our responses and make sure you aren't looking down and away. This shows confidence and you will gain people's trust.

9. Don’t show any sort of weakness

• Do not crumble under any circumstance and if the media see's weakness they'll try to bring that out of you every chance they get.
  

10. Professional attire

• Attire is very important, you want to look very presentable and professional. You are ultimately representing your team.

Following these Ten Commandments of Sports Management will ensure as well as sustain success throughout your career. These are all very important aspects involving the image of your organization. These steps will help you on a daily basis avoid negative media and maintain a positive view of yourself as well as the organization you are representing.

How to Make a Successful Presentation

Both written and oral communication require skill. It isn't easy, but like any written message, e-mails can easily be misunderstood. It takes practice and hard work to express yourself well. The same is true for oral communication that takes place in telephone calls, face-to-face meetings, formal briefings, and conferences. Listed below are some guidelines to follow in order to make a successful presentation, no matter what situation a manager is facing.

1. Be Prepared: Know what you want to say; know how you want to say it; rehearse saying it.
2. Set the Right Tone: Act audience centered; make eye contact; be pleasant and confident.
3. Sequence Points: State your purpose, make important points; follow with details; then summarize.
4. Support Your Points: Give specific reasons for your points; state them in understandable terms.
5. Accent the Presentation: Use good visual aids; provide supporting handouts when possible.
6. Add the Right Amount of Polish: Attend to details; have room, materials, and arrangements ready to go.
7. Check Your Technology: Check everything ahead of time, make sure it works and know how to use it.
8. Don't bet on the Internet: Beware of plans to make real-time Internet visits; save sites on a disk and use a browser to open the file.
9. Be Professional: Be on time; wear appropriate attire, act organized, confident, and enthusiastic.

These guidelines are important to follow to ensure that the communication level is effective and credible. Sport Managers are faced with barriers every day in which they shouldn't attend a conference and just "wing it", the manager needs to be prepared so that every one is receiving credible information.

Running a Successful Campaign

Running a Successful Campaign

A sports team campaign can be very helpful. When the manager of the baseball team decides to campaign its own team then it draws attention. The cities that you campaign will know more about your team. This can create fans, players, and most importantly, donations to help the team grow. This type of publicity can make a managers life much easier in the future. Here are some steps that the manager must take when campaigning:

Step 1: Get the Right Tools for your Sports Campaign

- Well designed tools will allow your campaign team to share information easily and efficiently, make well-informed decisions, and easily expand as you approach your last day of campaigning.

Step 2: Hiring Your Campaign Staff

-When running a campaign, three positions must be filled: treasurer, fundraiser and campaign manager.

-The treasurer is responsible for maintaining the campaigns financial accounting both for internal purposes and for filing legally required campaign statements.

-The fundraiser's job is primarily to focus on raising the money necessary for a successful campaign.

-The campaign manager's job is to run the campaign.

Step 3: The Campaign Budget

-The important thing is to be honest in your fundraising projections so that you can make reasonable decisions about spending priorities.

-Your priorities should be divided up into three categories: Must Have, Like to Have, and Luxury.

Step 4: The Heart of Running the Campaign

-After your tools, team, budget, strategy and message are put together, running the actual campaign is mostly just a matter of implementing.

-With solid planning, your daily operations will run smoothly Following those four easy steps will make your campaigning a success. In no time will you have fans, players, and money to make your baseball team grow to its highest potential.

Running a Successful Campaign

The Importance of Coaching

In order to be a successful and competent coach, you need to have many skills that are mostly communication based. The list is as follows...


- Examine your personal communication style and show how to react fittingly to the communication styles of others

- Recognize obstacles to communication and select effective procedures to conquer them

- Provide valuable and real feedback

- Use influencing techniques: commitment, steadiness and shortage

- Show how to apply listening techniques to verify and establish a speaker's desires, use confirmation techniques to guarantee correct understanding and assert your own requirements professionally, graciously and resolutely

- Placate emotional or upset individual.

- Put assertive communication techniques into action

- Realize anger in self and others

- How to allot bad news to others

- Spot the basis of conflict and use the suitable reply.

- Comprehend and apply modern negotiation strategies to: know when to make the first offer, when and how to make concessions and how to make the other person feel like a winner

- Identify and deal with absurd conflict: when it is a "shark" attack.

- Explain e-mail custom.

- Create helpful and specialized e-mail messages.

Spreading Publicity

The two most concrete ways we have come up with to spread publicity about our blog is a Facebook page or mass mailing to potential bloggers. Both of these ideas are great and will work towards drawing people to our blog.
A Facebook page is a great way to get people involved in something your doing even if you don't know them. I played on a local baseball team around here, and our coach was able to recruit players to a tryout by posting a listing on facebook. We were able to field a team just by posting positions we needed, and having a tryout for the spots. This would work the sameway with our blog. We could post something saying if anyone is interested in knowing more about professional writing in the sports management field, that way we can direct people right in to our site that really want to learn more.
Mailing clients will also work but I think less effectively. Although the occasional person does go through each piece of mail they recieve, most people will see something that is unfamiliar and toss it in the trash without even reading the contents. Cold calling prior to sending out mail might be more effective, so the person of interest knows to look for the mail, and you know the people you send information to about the blog are actually interested in more information about it.

Successful Marketing

In order for a baseball team to have an audience, they need to publicize themselves. This is part of a sport managers job duties. Sports managers meet daily with a team of people who's main purpose is to promote the baseball team in the community, so an audience can be created. During these meetings, sports managers tell the marketing staff what he/she expects and what he has in ideas. Some ideas may include having family nights, free t-shirt day, kids get to run the bases night, and fireworks following the game. Having promotional nights allows the community to have a great deal of fun while enjoying a baseball game. Creating these ideas takes strong communication skills between all parties. During meetings, ideas are thrown on the table and some may agree and some may disagree, but during the whole process the manager is there to make sure that everyone is thinking of ideas to draw a crowd into the park to have a good time.

After the meeting has completed and all thoughts and ideas have been created, the manager needs to market and sell the ideas to the community to draw them in. When communicating with the audience, the manager needs to dramatize each and every idea to help persuade the customers to come in our direction. Billboards, posters, team schedules, etc should be placed throughout the community. Perhaps even having a meet the team night to fund raise food for the local food bank could help the marketing aspect of the baseball team. Sports managers and a marketing team need to communicate together to create ideas that will benefit them and their customers. It is always important to have customer satisfaction and having a successful manager and marketing team leads the way to success in a baseball team.

The Importance of Planning

Every good sports manager plans for the intention of reaching the goals in the appropriate stage of time, with the smallest amount of problems, and in the most competent and successful way possible. Planning frequently includes more than one person. Plans have to be accepted by advanced and superior management; plans are put into practice through other people; and plans more often than not largely influence workers and other individuals and groups both within the organization and outside the organization.

Do you think communication skills are desirable to apply plans productively in the world of sports? The answer is YES.

A sports manager may be an unbelievable planner on paper, but he or she can still crash wretchedly in the implementation phase because of weak communication skills.

Sports Team Publicity

Sports Team Publicity


Managers need to find out ways to get money to fully support the team’s needs. To do this, they must do many types of publicity so that they can have fans, good players, and sponsors. Not only does a manager have to deal with publicity from the community, but they have to do publicity themselves to help out the team. There are many ways a manager can do this though communication skills.


The Managers publicity responsibility is:


· To recruit decent players
· To produce the overall publicity plan
· To order and manage promotional materials
· To organize personal visits to key people
· To manage the media promotion


The Manager can publicize the team by:


· Making Brochures
· Making Posters
· Public Announcements
· Create a Website
· Advertisement on Radio, T.V, Newspaper etc.


These are some of the ways the manager must do to successfully publicize the team. It is very important that the manager has good communication skills to convince people to help and support the baseball team.

Handling the Publicity

Handling Publicity
A sports manager needs to be strong and able to handle all of the different aspects that fall under public and media relations. Sports organizations seek heavily for those who are attributed with strong communication skills and who can handle the attention that comes along with a major sports team. Teams want someone who can put out PR fires and are professional in doing so, because they are ultimately representing the organization. They want someone who can be on their toes, prepared for anything that might come their way. Sports managers must be trained and master a variety of different areas involving:

- Promotion/Marketing

- Press Releases

- Press Conferences

- Conflict Resolution

- Interviewing of Players

- Community Relations

- Publicity

- Communications

These are just some of the main areas that a sports manager must excel in to become a successful asset to a sports organization.

Motivation is Key

Motivation is Key

Motivation is often associated with success especially in the sports world. Motivation is a very positive contagious emotion in any environment, it enhances morale and morale ultimately heightens performance. Emotion is a large aspect in Sports Management and sharing emotion develops a foundation to a strong relationship. Emotion illustrates passion and a sports manager must hold this quality to earn respect amongst the organization. Once one has the respect of an organization they can ultimately boost the morale and motivation in the club house. Let’s say a relationship between a sports manager and a player goes bad, now that negative impact will spread throughout the club house impacting the overall morale of the organization. Here are some key points a sports manager must uphold to achieve success on the field and off.

- Credit your player when they make a positive impact for the team

- Maintain a friendly yet authoritative and respectful relationship with each player on the team

- Reward your team for their good work and this will ultimately motivate them in the future

- If a player isn’t producing, pull them aside and give them some one on one time

- Most importantly, support your team, back them up and let them know you’re there for them

Expanding Publicity

There are many ways in the the new technological world we live in to spread the word about a new website or blog. Contacting people who would have potential interest in the idea of your blog is one easy way to draw people to our product. In our case, sports team managers, and in specific, baseball coaches, we could contact minor league managers via email with the link to our blog, and a little information about the goal of our blog. Also, a Facebook page is a great idea. We could send out a message to coaches looking for help in their professional writing skills and communications skills with their players. We could offer help in those fields with a simple click of the mouse.

Communication is key between manager and player, and manager and front office personnel. Managers would be better suited having a resource that could be a crutch for them in times of need. On top of communication, being able to write in a professional fashion is a vital tool that most managers will need. Whether it be writing player evaluations, team evaluations, need for equipment, a manager will be able to submit a professionally written document with the help of our blog.

Communication Skills

Excellent communication skills in sports are without a doubt the most important element donating to the functioning and development of exercise and sport contestants. The different objectives of communication are persuasion, assessment, information, inspiration and the ability to solve problems.

Communication is the skill of productively distributing significant data with people by means of a transaction of knowledge. Coaches desire to encourage their athletes and to supply them with understanding that will enable them to prepare more efficiently and execute better. Communication that goes from the coach to the athlete will kick off suitable measures. Nevertheless, this makes the athlete obtain the data from the coach, understand it, and accept it.

The Role of a Sport Manager

A sports manager works with a team to ensure that they receive the best possible career opportunities through having the best training, playing or competing with the best teams as well as being motivated. Most people confuse a sports manager with a sports agent. A sports agent, on the other hand, is responsible for dealing with a single athlete's salary and contracts. Sport managers work at different levels, whether they have a specific degree or they have years of experience and work their way up to a higher level of management.

Sports managers must:

• Be knowledgeable about managing people
• Have a good understanding of the sport
• Understand current trends in the sport
• Be strong communicators
• Maintain a strong network between players, coaches, and trainers

Some of the work activities that the manager is involved in includes:

• Assist with developing marketing and promotional ideas and campaigns for the team and/or athletes
• Working with trainers and coaches to ensure the athletes are in the best possible shape and are prepared for competition
• Handling play and coaching issues and working with the team to have it function well together. Must resolve conflicts and manage individuals within the team.
• Arrange and determine game schedules and competitions outside of the pre-set schedule.
• Hire and train all support personnel for the team including coaches and trainers.
• Working with facilitity managers and owners to provide all the necessary requirements for the team on both home and away games.
• Set, monitor and develop professional standards for the team and other professionals working for the team or athletes.

Types of Sports Managers

As an introduction, I wanted to briefly go over 3 basic types of Sports Managers...

1) First-level Managers- these managers are often called first-line managers. In order to succeed, these managers need great human/personal skills and strong technical skills. Examples of first-level sports managers include supervisors of county swimming pools, supervisors of maintenance for facilities, and managers of pro baseball teams.

2) Middle Managers- more or less manage through other managers. In order to succeed, these managers need great human/personal skills, but not as much technical knowledge. Examples of sports managers at the middle management level include general managers of pro teams, directors of player personnel, and head coaches.

3) Top-level Managers- these managers have a responsibility to lead and direct the organization as a whole toward the successful accomplishment of its objectives. In order to succeed, the only thing they really need is excellent conceptual skills, which helps you to relate and understand all aspects of the organization as a whole. Examples of top-level sports managers include Executive Directors, Owners, Conference Commissioners, or Athletics Directors.

The purpose of this post was to just give a brief description of how many different kinds of sports managers there are, and what you have to be able to do to acquire that specific position.

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Selecting Managers for a Sports Team

Selecting Managers for a Sports Team

In today’s Sports Teams, selecting the right manager is just as important as finding the perfect athletes to play for you. It is very difficult finding the right manager for your sports team.

The first step you should take is to play that sport well first. This way you will have credentials to actually be hired to manage a team. It a huge responsibility and you will need the experience, expertise, and have demonstrated that you can lead a team to success because winning is the most important factor that people look at in professional sports. Most managers start out as assistants in the system and eventually work their way up to a manager so that they can learn how to manage a sports team.

As team manager you help the coaches. You make sure everyone knows what time and where the games and practices. You make sure the uniforms are clean and ready to go. Help keep track of the score, who scored, who made the assists.

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